1759 – Jacob Albright, German-American Christian leader, founder of Albright’s People (Evangelical Association), born in Fox Mountain, Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
1830 – Mother [Mary Harris] Jones, American labor organizer (cofounded Industrial Workers of the World), born in Cork City, Ireland (d. 1930)
1835 – Alfred Napoleon Alexander “Natti” Duffié, French-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Paris, France (d. 1880)
1905 – Paul Desruisseaux, Canadian lawyer and politician (Senator for Wellington, Quebec), born in Sherbrooke, Quebec (d. 1982)
1906 – Horst Schumann, Nazi physician, born in Halle an der Saale, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1983)
1954 – Ray Parker Jr, rock guitarist/vocalist (Ghostbusters), born in Detroit, Michigan
1964 – Yvonne van Gennip, Dutch speed skater (Olympic gold 1,500m, 3,000m, 5,000m 1988), born in Haarlem, Netherlands
1964 – Ruth Picardie, journalist
1970 – Damon Diletti, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Olympic silver 1992; Champions Trophy gold 1999), born in Perth, West Australia
1979 – Ben Easter, American actor
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 30th April 2021
1830 – Davis Tillson, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Rockland, Maine (d. 1895)
1837 – Alfred R. Gaul, English composer, born in Nottingham (d. 1913)
1886 – Frank Merrick, English composer, born in Clifton, Bristol, England (d. 1981)
1923 – Joseph Howze, American Roman Catholic bishop, 1st African American Bishop to be appointed in 20th century, born in Daphne, Alabama (d. 2019)
1923 – Alan Wharton, English cricketer (England batsman once v NZ 1949, scored 7 and 13), born in Heywood, Lancashire, England (d. 1993)
1955 – Nicolas Hulot, French journalist
1959 – Paul Gross, Canadian actor (Constable Benton Fraser – Due South), director, and writer (Passchendaele), born in Calgary, Alberta
1970 – Debbie D, actress (Attack of Vampire Mermaid), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1980 – Sam Heughan, Scottish actor (Outlander), born in Balmaclellan, Scotland
1991 – Jacob Blake, African-American man shot multiple times in the back and seriously injured by police officer Rusten Sheskey in Kenosha, Wisconsin, born in Evanston, Illinois
Famous Birthdays for 29th April 2021
1584 – Melchior Teschner, German composer, born in Wschowa, Poland (d. 1635)
1783 – David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1856)
1912 – Richard Carlson, American actor (All I Desire, Flat Top, Valley of Gwangi), born in Albert Lea, Minnesota (d. 1977)
1933 – Rodney “Rod” McKuen, American poet, singer-songwriter and actor (Jean, Alone, Beatsville), born in Oakland, California (d. 2015)
1957 – Mark Kendall, American guitarist , born in Loma Linda, California
1970 – Andre Agassi, American tennis player (Olympic gold 1996, 8 Grand Slam titles), born in Las Vegas, Nevada
1972 – Gwendolyn Wentland, American high jumper, born in Flint, Michigan
1981 – Alex Vincent, American actor (Child’s Play), born in Newark, New Jersey
1982 – Kamran Jawaid, Pakistani film critic
1988 – Younha, Korean pop singer
Famous Birthdays for 28th April 2021
1812 – Daniel Henry Rucker, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Belleville, New Jersey (d. 1910)
1889 – Karel Doorman, Dutch rear admiral (Java Sea), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1942)
1906 – Pierre Boileau, French novelist (Vertigo), born in Paris, France (d. 1989)
1934 – Lois Duncan, American young adult novelist (I Know What You Did Last Summer), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2016)
1943 – John Oliver Creighton, NASA astronaut (STS 51G, 36, 48), born in Orange, Texas
1944 – Elizabeth LeCompte, American theater director (founding member of The Wooster Group), born in New Jersey
1961 – Cathy Gerring, American golfer (Solheim Cup 1990), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1964 – Mark Steven Robinson, American director
1964 – Barry Larkin, infielder (Cincinnati Reds), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1975 – Martin Lewis, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
Famous Birthdays for 27th April 2021
1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English writer and feminist (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), mother of Mary Shelley, born in London (d. 1797)
1791 – Samuel Morse, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1872)
1913 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate, born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 2004)
1927 – Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., born in Heiberger, Alabama (d. 2006)
1932 – Roelof “Pik” Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs, born in Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa
1943 – Eugene Polyakov, Russian balletmaster (Paris Opera Ballet), born in Moscow (d. 1996)
1944 – Herb Pedersen, American singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited), born in Berkeley, California
1971 – Hayley Carr, Salzburg Austria, actress (Courtney-As the World Turns)
1979 – Will Boyd, American bass guitarist (Evanescence), born in Little Rock, Arkansas
1981 – Joey Gathright, American baseball player, born in Columbia, Mississippi
Famous Birthdays for 26th April 2021
1718 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral and Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy, born in Scituate, Rhode Island (d. 1802)
1808 – Martha Finley, American children’s book author (Elsie Dinsmore series), born in Chillicothe, Ohio (d. 1909)
1903 – Niven Busch, American screenwriter (The Postman Always Rings Twice), born in NYC, New York (d. 1991)
1905 – Jean Vigo, French actor and director (Zero For Conduct, L’Atlante), born in Paris, France (d. 1934)
1918 – Francina “Fanny” Blankers-Koen, Dutch track and field athlete (4 x Olympic gold 1948), born in Lage Vuursche, Netherlands (d. 2004)
1942 – Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, born in Naifeld, Sumy (d. 1992)
1945 – Chuck Blazer [Charles Gordon Blazer], American soccer administrator, born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
1947 – Warren Clarke, English actor (Clockwork Orange), born in Oldham, Lancashire, (d. 2014)
1979 – Sean Fox, American actor (3 Ninjas Kick Back, Calendar Girl)
1982 – Brock Gillespie, American basketball player (CB Ciudad de Valladolid), born in Des Moines, Iowa
Famous Birthdays for 25th April 2021
1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German composer, born in Bindersleben, Germany (d. 1727)
1916 – Luis Herrera de la Fuente, Mexican pianist, conductor (Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, 1954-72), and composer, born in Mexico City (d. 2014)
1923 – Albert King [Nelson], American blues guitarist and singer (BB King and Friends, Blues Alive), born in Indianola, Mississippi (d. 1992)
1940 – O. B. McClinton, American country singer (Keep your arms around me), born in Senatobia, Mississippi (d. 1987)
1947 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch soccer player and coach (Ajax/Barcelona), born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (d. 2016)
1950 – Steve Ferrone, English rock drummer (Average White Band), born in Brighton, England
1955 – Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer (Argentina national team), born in Morteros, Argentina
1955 – Joanne Abbott, Canadian sailor (Olympics 1996), born in Sarnia, Ontario
1974 – Tricia Dunn, American ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics 1998), born in Derry, New Hampshire
1994 – Samuel Carvalho, British activist and mental health advocate, born in Cambridge, England
Famous Birthdays for 24th April 2021
1581 – Vincent de Paul, French Roman Catholic Saint, born in Pouy, Gascony, France (d. 1660)
1670 – Christian Ludwig Boxberg, German composer, born in Sondershausen, Thuringia, Germany (d. 1729)
1871 – Blanche Ring, American singer (“In The Good Old Summer Time”), and stage and screen actress, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
1904 – Willem De Kooning, Dutch artist (North Atlantic Light), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1997)
1954 – Jack Blades, American rock bassist (Damn Yankees-Coming of Age, Night Ranger), born in Palm Desert, California
1968 – Aidan Gillen [Aidan Murphy], Irish actor (Queer as Folk, Game of Thrones), born in Dublin, Ireland
1969 – Melinda Clarke, American actress (Days of Our Lives), born in Dana Point, California
1972 – Chipper Jones, American MLB infielder (Atlanta Braves), born in DeLand, Florida
1973 – Lee Westwood, English golfer (British Open, US Masters 2010 runner-up), born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire
1978 – Kim Hyun-ju, South Korean actress, born in Goyang, South Korea
Famous Birthdays for 23rd April 2021
1623 – Jan Adam Reincken, Dutch-German composer, born in Deventer, Netherlands (d. 1722)
1629 – Jan Commelin, Dutch botanist and director of Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1692)
1649 – Andreas Kneller, German composer, born in Lübeck, Germany (d. 1724)
1791 – Friedrich von Olivier, German landscape painter, born in Dessau, Germany (d. 1859)
1881 – Claude Carter, South African cricket spin bowler (19 Tests, 28 wickets), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 1952)
1923 – Antonino Rocca, Italian-Argentine professional wrestler, born in Treviso, Veneto, Italy (d. 1977)
1929 – Len Barnard, Australian jazz drummer (“The Naked Dance”; Galapagos Duck), born in Melbourne Australia (d. 2005)
1941 – Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland (1995-2003), born in Turtola, Finland
1955 – Tony Miles, English chess grandmaster, born in Birmingham, England (d. 2001)
1970 – Cristiano Caratti, Italian tennis star (1987 Orange Bowl boys doubles), born in Acqui Terme, Italy
Famous Birthdays for 22nd April 2021
1828 – Guilherme Cossoul, Portuguese composer, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1880)
1853 – Alphonse Bertillon, French police officer and anthropologist (devised crime ID system), born in Paris (d. 1914)
1884 – Armas Launis, Finnish composer, born in Hämeenlinna, Finland (d. 1959)
1909 – Hymie Shertzer, American jazz and session saxophonist (Benny Goodman; NBC’s Tonight Show), born in New York City (d. 1977)
1916 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-British violinist, conductor and teacher (Bartok’s Sonata), born in NYC, New York (d. 1999)
1920 – Jos de Haes, Flemish philological and poet (Misery of the Word), born in Leuven, Belgium (d. 1974)
1927 – Pascal Bentoiu, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 2016)
1965 – Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Christopher Sanders, tight end (Washington Redskins)
1976 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer